WB0029 Graphics and Sound FRACTAL GENERATOR (v1.1) By Doug Houck This program grows fractal pictures from seeds you create. It is meant to be a tool for exploring the world of fractals. It can be enjoyed on three levels: (1) loading and displaying fractals stored on disk, (2) modifying existing fractals, and (3) creating your own fractals. The main idea of this program is very simple. Take a shape composed of several line segments, and replace each line segment with a small copy of the entire shape. Continue doing this until you reach the resolution limit of your screen. For example: (Koch Snowflake) /\ Seed / \ ____/ \____ __/\__ 1st Generation \ / _/\_/ \_/\_ What you have is a self-similar fractal generated in beautiful living color. MANDELS This generates the classic mandelbrot set. What is the mandelbrot set? The mandelbrot set is a mathematical representation of fraction space. Ok Ok you say, fraction space but what is that? Well what ever that is, it does generate some spectacular visual imagery. This one comes in three varieties, a ieee, a fast floating point, and an 881 support. MandelMountains (v1.1) By Mathias Ortmann Discover the Mandelbrot Set From a Completely New Point of View! MandelMountains gives you the ability to render wonderful three-dimensional images of blow-ups of the Mandelbrot Set. The well-known color strips of the usual Mandelbrot images become at once mountain sides that smoothly climb to high plateaus, leaving deep valleys between them. You may have already seen images of this type (e.g. on the covers of the books "The Beauty of Fractals - Images of Complex Dynamical Systems" by H.-O. Peitgen and P.H. Richter or "The Science of Fractal Images", edited by H.-O. Peitgen and D. Saupe) - here and now you have the tool to create them on your own! MandelMountains allows you to produce high-quality non-interlaced or interlaced (and even overscan) images of arbitrary areas of the Mandelbrot Set. You can easily define magnification windows to zoom deeper and deeper into this fascinating world. TURBOMANDEL (v 1.0) By Marivoet Philip Another Mandelbrot set generator. This one is incredibly fast on a standard Amiga. Contains some very nice features. Source code provided. Mostra - A Universal IFF Viewer By Sebastiano Vigna In the words of the author "There are many utilities for viewing IFF ILBM files, but none I'd seen until now met the goal of displaying every IFF picture; each had its idiosyncrasies. If one viewer could display overscan pictures, then every picture with more than 640 pixels on a line would be shifted like there were 700 pixels; some programs could only show a directory of pictures by forcing the user to enter all the filenames; some programs would crash with PAL pictures; others would do the same with pictures larger than any screen; it was rare to have an option to force a screen mode (for the tech-folks out there: old IFF ILBM files don't have the CAMG chunk!); there were no comfortable file requesters for use when you didn't know the exact name of the file (who can remember GRABBiT file names?); pressing the right mouse button could cause a useless drag bar to corrupt the picture... If a program had one feature, it lacked another, so I decided to write a show utility". Sound By Richard Lee Stockton Sound will attempt to feed 's data to the audio device. It will 'sound' files containing ANY kind of data, (try 'Sound Sound' :-) and of ANY length. If you have expansion memory, 'Sound' will store data in FAST ram, and use only 4-5 k. of CHIP ram to actually sound the data. This is the magic of 'double-buffering'. Nice job. Vdraw By Stephen Vermeulen A very well implemented ShareWare Drawing/paint program. Lots of well thought out features. DynaShow A dynamic high-res display program.